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Editorial sacred-geometry illustration for Finca Tamana Caturron, not a photograph of this coffee or its packaging

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Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for Finca Tamana Caturron; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for Finca Tamana Caturron; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for Finca Tamana Caturron; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

🇨🇴Colombia · Huila

Finca Tamana Caturron

Roasted by Tim WendelboeRoaster's website
TRADITIONAL PROCESS
TagsColombiaHuilaCaturronWashedHerbalPapayaArabicaSingle originFinca TamanaElias Roa & Bellanid SanchezTim Wendelboe
🇨🇴ColombiaWashedCaturron
Brand
—
Roaster website
Visit website
Country
🇨🇴Colombia
Region
Huila
Town
El Pital
Farm / Station
Finca Tamana
Farmer / Producer
Elias Roa & Bellanid Sanchez
Species
Arabica
Type
Single origin
Grade
Not specified
Variety
Caturron
Process
Roast
—
Tasting notes
Herbal, Floral habanero, Papaya
Fermentation
Cherries rested overnight in an open-air hopper, then were depulped and fermented with mucilage for 24 hours in clean stainless-steel tanks. The parchment was eco-mill washed and soaked for 24 hours in clean water.
Drying
Dried in parabolic dryers and on drying beds covered with shade nets for 20–30 days, with regular raking, to below 11% moisture.
Product page
Roaster's site
Date reviewed
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Why some details are blank
  • gradeThe exact roaster page does not state a formal green-coffee grade.
  • altitude mThe current exact product page does not state the lot's elevation.
  • roast levelThe current exact product page gives filter brewing guidance but no conventional roast-level label.
  • roast dateNo bag-specific roast date is published.
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The transparency chain

FROM THE BAG
BACK TO THE LAND.

Every link we could verify, traced in one place. Follow the chain as far as it goes — when the industry doesn't disclose a link, we say so instead of guessing.

  1. 01
    The name on the bag
    Finca Tamana Caturron
  2. 02
    The brand
    Not disclosed
  3. 03
    The roaster
    Tim Wendelboe
  4. 04
    The variety
    Caturron
  5. 05
    The farm
    Finca Tamana
  6. 06
    The farmer
    Elias Roa & Bellanid Sanchez
  7. 07
    The region
    Huila
  8. 08
    The country
    🇨🇴Colombia
From the producer

Elias Roa and Bellanid Sanchez manage the 57-hectare Finca Tamana with their family. Elias acquired the abandoned property in 2011 and rebuilt its coffee production and processing systems.

From the roaster

Tim Wendelboe highlights Caturron's intense herbal and floral character, likening it to bell pepper and habanero without heat, alongside papaya and other tropical fruit.

Why this coffee is noteworthy

Caturron is a rare local Huila cultivar with a distinctive, repeatable herbal and tropical profile. DNA testing reported by Tim Wendelboe suggests Híbrido de Timor crossed with Bourbon or Caturra, and the cultivar appears uniform and leaf-rust resistant.

The honest process breakdown

WHAT DID THEY ACTUALLY
DO TO THIS COFFEE?

01
Picking and sorting

Ripe cherries were selectively hand-picked and hand-sorted.

02
Fermentation and washing

Cherries rested overnight, then depulped parchment fermented for 24 hours in stainless-steel tanks, was eco-mill washed, and soaked for another 24 hours.

03
Drying

Parchment dried for 20–30 days in parabolic dryers and on shade-covered beds until moisture fell below 11%.

What was added?

No fruit, flavorings, or commercial cultures are disclosed.

What wasn't added?

The process relies on controlled fermentation, washing, soaking, and protected drying.

Why it matters

The careful washed process preserves the cultivar's naturally unusual herbal, floral, and tropical character.

What you might taste

Herbal bell pepper, floral habanero without heat, papaya, and tropical fruit.

Sources for these process claims
  • · https://timwendelboe.no/products/finca-tamana-caturron
Coffee profile

In the database. Not tasted. Not scored.

This coffee is in our database because we can reliably document it — but we haven't tasted and scored it yet, and we never publish a score we haven't earned.

Outside reviews and internet discussion — is kept clearly separate from our own review. When we taste it, our full review appears here.

The internet pulse

What the internet is saying about this coffee

What the internet is saying
WE FOUND 1 RELEVANT PUBLIC SOURCES

AI-synthesized from publicly available information retrieved 2026-10-15. This is research, not our original tasting review.

What the sources say

One independent exact-product customer-review source reports a strongly positive aggregate: 4.67/5 from three votes. This is outside sentiment, not our score.

What people love

Reviewers described the coffee as different and distinctive, easy to extract, and true to its published habanero note.

What people don't

One verified customer considered it expensive for what it offered.

Flavors people keep mentioning
distinctiveeasy to extracthabanero notedifferent
Outside ratings & rankings

Scores remain on their original scales. An outside review, competition score or historical release is not our tasting and cannot safely be merged into one five-star rating.Our method

Internet sentiment

A qualitative summary of public sources, including context. Not a coffee score.

Positive
The sources
  • Blog
    Bean There Downed That
    A personal review noting that the Caturron cultivar is a genetic cross between Hibrido de Timor and Bourbon or Caturra, resulting in a distinct and uniform cup.
    Source
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